The Field of Paramedicine Explored Through a Communist Lens!
I didn’t think that in the year 2025, I would need to address Nazis in the world of Paramedicine. That is to say, while I, and anyone else with a brain, knows that Nazis, neo-Nazis, etc are involved in Paramedicine, and healthcare as a whole, they usually aren’t brazen about their Nazi status. Their political […]
A common topic at my service is that of preceptors. Inevitably no matter what subtopic of precepting we may be discussing we circle around to the idea of whether certain people should be preceptors. I’m not directly tackling that topic as I’m not openly arguing against any one individual or person who is or isn’t […]
For years, I heard about Peter Canning and his freshman effort, Paramedic: On the Front Lines of Medicine. Canning’s book was touted as one of the key books that anyone even tangentially associated with Paramedicine needed to read. However, I never gave the book much heed and figured it was probably good if so many […]
We’re now a few weeks after the killing of UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Officer, Brian Thompson. Plenty has been written about the killing, all the way from the details of the killing to thoughts about the person who supposedly pulled the trigger, Luigi Mangione. I’m not sure I have much to add, but as this event […]
Spend enough time in an ambulance or in any Paramedicine station and you’re likely to hear about abuse of the 911 system. As crews run more and more calls they are apt to point to abuse by those calling 911 as the reason why they are so busy. When asked by the oncoming crew how […]
I thought for a long time about starting this website and an even longer time ruminating over what I should write about first. There are a lot of topics that I want to write about, but once I finally got the ball rolling I realized that the first post needed to be an introduction to […]